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John Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:17:51 -0400
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I've run 2 sound cards on my last few computers, anything reasonably new, 
say with in the last 5 years or so, I don't know anyone who's had a problem. 
Not to say some machine somewhere might not like it, but over all it should 
be alright. I do it all the time.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: RFI problem.


> yes, perhaps 6 or 7 years ago, machine instability, crashing windows and
> over worked processors were an issue.
> I would step out on a limb and say that anything that has a modern
> processor, 2.8GB and up with 512 or more of ram shouldn't ever have a
> problem running two sound cards.
> I suppose that in the case of the old pentium 1 or 2 or 3 shack box, that
> stability and resources could be a problem, but certainly not generally
> speaking about modern systems.
> And booting from DOS? now your showing your age.  And so am I for all that
> lol.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>
>
>> Two sound cards can be a challenge to stability in some machines.  It is
>> still handy to have real speech at dos.  You can dig yourself out of
> trouble
>> if windows won't boot.  You can run talking dos and dos programs from the
>> desktop.  You can take the extra load off the processor if things get
> tight.
>>
>>
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